Redirects and pop up ads

[live4ever]

Forum URL: live4ever.proboards.com

Hi

I was informed by some of my members, that when browsing the forum on their mobile phones using the chrome browser, full page pop-up ads appear. The only way to get out of the ad is to reboot their iPhone. Have there been other instances reported by proboards users browsing on their phones?

Thanks 

[Brian]

Hi, live4ever.

If users receive any redirects please have them immediately visit the following page to report the ads responsible:

ads.proboards.com/ad-report.html

Reporting an ad is the most effective way to have it removed from the rotation as this gives us all of the information about the advertiser and the specific ad itself to view and duplicate the issue with.

[igaveupnowwhat]

I'm a newbie, so I may be misunderstanding the issue, but I did have a problem with pop-up ads and redirects when using Chrome.  It seemed to occur only when I accessed ProBoards, but since no one else on the forum was having this problem, I thought it must be coming from my computer.  I ran several virus checks, including Adware, Malwarebytes, Sophos, and Wise Registry Cleaner, but nothing was found.  Nothing.  Nor were these problems coming from any of the advertisers on ProBoards. Yet they kept coming, always while I was trying to work in our ProBoards forum.

When I looked at the settings on my browser, I found I was overwhelmed with advertising cookies!  Even after deleting them, the cookies came back.  I really don't know where I was picking them up, but what I finally did was clean out the cookies daily and specifically block the ones I suspected of causing the problem.  I eventually got it right, because I haven't been bothered in weeks now.  

Hopefully this will help someone.